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Throughout their history, artists have looked at birds and tried to make them soar on paper with pen and paint. According to renowned British naturalist and documentary filmmaker Sir David Attenborough, though, there are birds so lovely and ingenious they can justifiably be categorized as art - and even artists - themselves.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2004/03/profiles-200-2.jpg